​Friday 20th November 2015On this morning I knew that the planets Venus, Mars and Jupiter were all aligned along the ecliptic before dawn, so I got up at 3am and took some lovely images with the foreground of the lake and the colours of dawn…it was very beautiful.

​My images were taken with a Canon 7D and a 17-85mm lens set at 17mm on a tripod, exposure was just 10 seconds and ISO 1000…no fancy tracking equipment. I always use what I have to capture an event, if you don’t do that then you’ll never capture any of the amazing things that you’ll see in the sky. Just go for it!!